Facebook Users Log Onto Facebook, Discover That They’re Dead

After a week of horrors, including a stunning end to a seemingly interminable election that left half the nation shaken, many Facebook users logged onto Facebook to find out another startling bit of news: they were dead.

In what appears to be a massive glitch, Facebook has begun to eulogize an unknown number of its users. On Friday afternoon, at least hundreds of Facebook users went to their profiles to discover that Facebook thought they had died. One user speculated that the message had something to do with the outpouring of messages she had received post-election, but that doesn’t seem to be what has triggered the memorial banner to appear on hundreds of other users’ profiles, including Facebook. C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg himself. “Remembering Mark Zuckerberg,” the banner atop the page reads. “We hope people who love Mark will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate his life.”